GissaMittJobb
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- Comment on Sweden unveils its largest military aid package for Ukraine worth nearly $1.6 billion 3 days ago:
We have a vested interest in keeping Russia at bay. They have been routinely violating our airspace around Gotland for a good long while now, and we’re not amused.
- Comment on What exercises should i do at the gym to correct winged scapula and rounded shoulders? 6 days ago:
I’m convinced doing deadlifts has helped me posturally.
- Comment on One-handed games? 1 week ago:
I don’t think I changed the difficulty-settings.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
Realistically, people aren’t going to attain their goals trying to do a Twinkie CICO diet though, even though it might be theoretically possible.
I wish people would just move on from posting about CICO already, it’s long since outlived its usefulness as a concept
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
The best form of exercise for you is the form that you actually do consistently week after week. If this means working out at home, then that’s fine. Given that you’re not trying to break any records, this might just be fine for you.
I’ve done many different forms of working throughout the years, one of which was to work out at home/local outdoor gym. I did this because there were no gyms at what I considered to be a reasonable distance from home, and I considered that to be too much of an impediment to actually get the work done consistently.
I did get stronger from it, and used it as a part of losing weight, which I wanted on account of being overweight at that time.
I’ve since stopped doing that routine and moved to lifting weights at a gym, which I considered attainable since I moved to a place with gyms very close by. I did this because working out at home had basically reached a plateau as far as strength was concerned - lifting weights at a gym will get you stronger at a faster pace.
I think checking out the stuff that Hybrid Calisthenics does could be worthwhile for you. Do some stuff at home for now if that feels better for you, and then evaluate later on if it keeps working for you.
- Comment on One-handed games? 1 week ago:
How do I get into it? I’ve tried and it’s not really sticking, to be honest.
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 3 weeks ago:
You might be looking for a handcart. Popular during medieval times, and among Mormon pioneers.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
There’s potential for mitigating some of the negative impacts using a mixed approach, although I’m not convinced it’s going to be straightforward or even worthwhile.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Please refer to the section about the negative effects of reducing property taxes.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Using retirees as a tool to work against property taxes has historically been an effective strategy, but it’s important to remember:
- What we’re actually trying to accomplish
- Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal
- Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate
- Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal
One-by-one:
What we’re actually trying to accomplish
Seems to me that the root question is one of housing affordability, in particular for retirees, who may have a lot of assets, but limited cash flow
Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal
Reducing/capping property taxes does indeed make it easier for some retirees to keep affording their homes, but reducing property taxes makes real estate a more lucrative investment, driving up the overall prices of real estate. This applies for both private persons intending to use the property to live in, for private persons looking seek rent, and corporate actors doing the same. Messing with property taxes is a large part of the housing affordability issue present in many places in the U.S and elsewhere (zoning laws being another major contributor, in particular those mandating single family homes, and lack of public housing being the other major contributor). Hence, this change would only benefit those lucky enough to have purchased a home in the past, at the expense of all retirees not already that lucky, which are now less likely to be able to do so.
Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate
Apart from driving up the prices of real estate for other retirees, everyone else interested in purchasing a home will also feel this broad increase in prices. This has led to large swaths of the population being effectively priced out of home ownership. This has the second order effect of making owning rentals more lucrative, as higher rents can be charged, further exacerbating the larger problem of housing affordability, but now also for even poorer people.
Finally, reductions in real estate taxes limit what public services can be funded through their use. In the U.S, this primarily means schools, infrastructure, firefighting, transit etc, all of which are suffering a lot in quality, much as a consequence of having messed with property taxes in the past.
There’s a very, very strong case to be made that the consequences have very much outweighed the benefits in this scenario. I would even say that they have been devastating, being part of the root cause of a large amount of issues seen today.
Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal
There clearly are good means to tackle this problem in other ways, the principal of which I believe should be massive public investment in social housing. By building a huge supply of high quality homes affordable to everyone, we make sure no one will have to be forced to go without an acceptable home, regardless of whether they are retired or not.
The second strategy should be to entirely remove the kind of zoning laws that have contributed to the kind of increase in housing prices seen today - mandating that only single family homes should be allowed to be built on massive lots with low utilization is hugely harmful to housing affordability.
These two measures would address housing prices having gone up in the way they have historically, which would also lead to property taxes not rising in such a dramatic fashion.
What should never be done, however, is reducing or capping property taxes.
- Comment on 🐸 time 4 weeks ago:
True? Yes. Climate solution? No.
- Comment on Top Economist Has Winning Idea for Trump's Trade War: Tariffs for US Oligarchs 4 weeks ago:
My body is ready for targeted sanctions against all Musk-related businesses. Seize all assets he and his companies hold in the EU and use them to make up for the frozen aid to Ukraine
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
It’s completely baffling that there are people unironically still defending gas stoves in 2025. There’s no discussion to be had on the subject any more, induction is superior and that’s final.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
The interfaces are usually really bad, yes. The technology itself still makes up for this particular shortcoming, but they need to step up their game.
- Comment on Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. 1 month ago:
From what I gather from the Perplexity CEO, he is just that type of Musk-tier cringelord, so yes, probably
- Comment on Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. 1 month ago:
My god, could he have chosen a name more cringe than this? Fuck.
- Comment on The priorities of life 1 month ago:
With a pannier rack and baskets to hang on the rack, I can carry all the groceries we need for 1-2 weeks if I so wish on my bike, no problems whatsoever.
- Comment on Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream 1 month ago:
Honestly, just never use link shorteners. QR codes have basically completely killed their use-case, and various sharing tools take care of what little QR codes do not.
- Comment on Branded pothole repairs. 1 month ago:
The reason your roads have so many potholes is because where you live likely has too much road infrastructure to support relative to the amount of taxes collected to maintain said infrastructure.
In other words, it’s insolvent.
- Comment on Lost in translation 1 month ago:
Voice message transcription could probably be a pretty good accessibility-feature for chat apps, I think.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 1 month ago:
Llama has several restrictions making it quite a bit less open than Grok or DeepSeek.
- Comment on They're coming 1 month ago:
The goonmaxxening is soon upon us
- Comment on If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble 1 month ago:
That’s just most people though, isn’t it?
It’s a bit messed up that we humans have to exercise just to stay well-functioning, and I don’t blame people who don’t do that at all.
- Comment on If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble 1 month ago:
That one is a bit of an HR emotional abuse so idk, do it at your own peril. Also it won’t help your muscles or bones
- Comment on If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble 1 month ago:
Strength exercise helps, I recommend it
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 1 month ago:
Sweden: These are called Tunnbrödrulle (flat bread roll)
Chile: These are called Completos (complete ones, the whole package basically. A hot dog with everything on it). They are also commonly served with Chilean-style mustard and Ají, a spicy sauce.
If I had to choose between them, I’d go for a Completo. Those things will be the death of me, but I will in the very least die happy
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 1 month ago:
Well, they should have added proper labels to them instead of just writing the country name.
The Swedish one is not strictly speaking a “Swedish-style hot dog” - when we eat hot dogs, it’s mostly a bread/sausage/ketchup/mustard-deal. The one in the picture is a Tunnbrödrulle (flat bread roll), which does contain a sausage, but it’s not what I would call a hot dog by any means.
They are good, though!
- Comment on Taking them to Canada. 1 month ago:
Is that Thai I see on the sign in the back? I guess it would track with the method of delivery as well. A bit too far away to tell definitively, but I would say it’s probably SEA at least
- Comment on First sodium battery urban e-bike offers 45-mile range and operates in cold weather without capacity loss 2 months ago:
As far as I know (which is not a lot in this case), salt isn’t really harvested from desalination, and instead the concentrated salt solution (brine) gets deposited back into the ocean, where it can be damaging to marine life in the vicinity of the plant.
- Comment on Neighbours are eligible for FTTP, but I'm not - only options wait and hope or pay? 2 months ago:
You could perhaps convince them that it’s an investment that would increase the value of the property.